Matt Might and Cristina Casanova met in the spring
of 2002, as twenty-year-old undergraduates at the Georgia Institute of
Technology. Cristina was an industrial-design major with an interest in
philosophy; Matt was a shy computer geek obsessed with “Star Trek.” At
first, Cristina took no notice of him, but the two soon became friends,
and that fall they began dating. Within a year, they were married.
The
couple had their first child, a son, on December 9, 2007, not long
after Matt completed his Ph.D. in computer science and Cristina earned
her M.B.A. They named him Bertrand, in honor of the British philosopher
and mathematician Bertrand Russell. After a few blissful weeks, the new
parents began to worry. Matt and Cristina described Bertrand to friends
as being “jiggly”; his body appeared always to be in motion, as if he
were lying on a bed of Jell-O. He also seemed to be in near-constant
distress, and Matt’s efforts to comfort him “just enraged him,” Matt
says. “I felt like a failure as a father.” When the Mights raised their
concerns with Bertrand’s doctor, they were assured that his development
was within normal variations. Not until Bertrand’s six-month checkup did
his pediatrician agree that there was cause for concern.
via The New Yorker
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